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Defoliation Arc: Mission 002
CHAPTER 2
A/N: ILuvPurple16
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Misty woke up from the sound of her cell phone ringing. Everything was so different, compared to the last morning. Her living room was filled with cardboard boxes of all sizes. The trip from California to New York took a while, mostly because the flight wasn't on time for some unknown reason and Misty had to sit at the airport for three hours. When she finally arrived at her new place, the moving company delivered all her stuff. Last night, Misty had Chinese take-out for dinner and after watching some crime shows on TV, she fell asleep on her couch. Leaving the boxes still unpacked.
Misty picked up her phone and answered it. "Hi May, how you guys doing? … the mall? … you have got to be kidding-…Dawn and the others too … well, I don't have work today… 'kay. See ya later."
She ended the call and headed for her bathroom, for a nice lavender bath.
On that same Friday morning, Gary sat at his desk looking over papers. A new email came up on his inbox on the computer screen and Gary opened it up. The email was from headquarters. They sent him information on his new agents. The files contained the information on the agents being transferred to his unit. He skimmed through the documents, but stopped at Misty's photo.
She looks so familiar, thought Gary. He continued reading the rest of the documents, then went back to his papers.
Misty rubbed her tired, jet lagged eyes as she got out of her car and Dawn ran up and gave her a death grip hug.
It was around nine o'clock in the morning, but the mall parking building was dark, except for the lights and the little bit of sunlight that peeked around some corners.
Dawn kept on babbling away about how happy she was that everyone was back together. Misty's face began to turn a bit blue, because of Dawn's hugging.
"Oh my gosh Misty, I can't believe you guys are here, in New York with us!" Dawn squealed in delight. May came over to Dawn and Misty. "Okay Dawn, I think Misty has had enough squeezing for today," May said, already having received her death hug, "why don't we go shopping now?"
"Oh yeah! I've got to go get the twins from Paul, and then we can go." Dawn said running back over to her car where Paul was strapping the twins into their double stroller.
Dawn grabbed the bag with the baby supplies from the back seat, and then everybody headed towards the mall entrance.
"Like we never even left," Misty laughed, "except for the fact that I still have all those boxes to unpack."
"I think we all have boxes to unpack," May said, "I've got no clue why this shopping excursion came up on today of all days."
"Well, you know Dawn, she'll come up with the most random ideas at the most random times. It's nice to be back together again though." Misty explained, with a bright smile.
Dawn said "Okay, so we're going to meet the guys back at the food court at noon to eat," She took the twins, kissed Paul on the cheek "Catch you later" she said to Paul and she headed right with Misty and May.
All the girls sat down at the tables in the food court of the mall around noon. Music videos were playing on hanging TV screens and the smell of all types of food was everywhere.
"Gee, I'm exhausted," Dawn complained as she put down all the bags from the stores, next to her seat "there's way more shopping here than in California."
"I think that shopping just knocked off the few extra pounds I've been trying to lose." May added.
"Well, let's see what there is to eat here then," Misty said, "I'm hungry enough to eat a horse."
After they picked up their various lunches from the stands around the mall, they all settled in to eat. Phil was sipping apple juice from his sippy-cup and Portia was eating some animal crackers. But, by the looks of it, she was just putting the animal crackers in her mouth halfway and taking them out again.
"So Misty, what goes on at work these days?" May asked as she was eating her chicken salad.
"Doesn't Drew tell you anything?" Misty questioned in response.
"No, he doesn't. He's been kinda quiet lately, but still the romantic Drew. " May said giggling at the end. Drew just looked at her with a smirk at the other end of the table.
"That's why you and Drew go together so well. Anyway, at work, umm…," Misty started telling May and Dawn, "there's something pretty suspicious stuff going on around there. I'm not sure what, but it feels a bit off right now."
They all sat in silence as the news sunk in.
"Don't we ever get a break from impending doom?" May asked.
"Yeah, something always-" Dawn was cut off by Phil trying to pour apple juice on Portia's head and Portia throwing chewed bits of animal crackers at Phil.
"Phillip, Portia, you are in so much trouble!" Dawn yelled.
The weekend had passed, and it was a dreadful Monday again. It was Misty's first day at work in New York. She was looking forward to meeting the new Unit Chief
As Misty was heading towards the meeting room, she bumped into a tall guy.
"Excuse me?" said Misty, and as she looked up, she saw Gary.
"It's you!" they both shouted at the same time, pointing accusing fingers.
"What's the matter?" Drew asked, turning the corner, seeing his partner pointing an accusing finger at their new unit officer.
"He's the dude who massacred my mechanical pencils in training school!" Misty shouted.
"You took notes with your laptop anyways! Besides, you're the one who took over half of my desk with all your books" Gary shot back.
"It's not my fault that the campus had connected desks! You still murdered my pencils!" Misty retorted.
"All I did was chew them… A little. You got us both into trouble when you started that paper ball fight!" Gary replied.
"You bit the pencils half way down! And the class actually kind of enjoyed the paper ball fight! " Misty screamed.
"Yeah, but you're completely exaggerating the whole pencil thing!" Gary yelled.
Drew, who was secretly laughing to himself, decided it was time to end this.
"Alright guys," Drew said, stopping between chuckles, "it's time you cut this out, you're drawing a bit of a crowd."
"Whatever," Misty said, "we've got that meeting right now anyways."
"Right," said Gary and they all headed towards the meeting room.
Ugh, can't believe I have to work with this unreasonable chick, Gary thought to himself.
Drew still chuckled as they walked. Misty gave him a slight elbow to the ribs.
"Alright, alright." Said Drew, still laughing at the end.
"Paul, I've got something to talk to you about." Dawn said, sitting down at the kitchen table, still dressed in her night gown. The twins were still sleeping in their crib upstairs. A baby monitor sat on the table.
Paul looked up from his morning coffee, "Hell no, we're not having another one Dawn."
"That is not what I was talking about!" Dawn shouted, smacking Paul on the arm.
"Alright then, what do you want?" Paul asked.
"I'm going to get a job!" Dawn squealed excitedly.
"And what brought this on?" Paul questioned.
"I just feel like I need to do something more now that we've moved." Dawn replied.
"What job do you plan on doing?" Paul inquired.
"Well Paul, I didn't take creative writing classes back in college for nothing," Dawn answered, "I'm going to be an editor for a newspaper."
"… Well good luck with that." Paul said after a moment.
Dawn just sighed in exasperation. She might as well just leave this fight alone.
"Alright… Mrs. Shinji, all your papers seem to be in order," The interviewer said, "we'll call you if you got the job."
Dawn nodded, "Thank you sir." Dawn said, looking at the interviewer closely. He seemed so familiar, but she didn't remember meeting anyone with a buzz cut and blue eyes before.
The interviewer stood up, as did Dawn, "Well good bye Mrs. Shinji."
"Goodbye sir," Dawn replied, walking out the door. She felt an odd sensation, like someone was watching her. She turned to see the man who had interviewed her smirking and staring at her walk out. When she looked he wiped off the smirk, but continued to look at her.
As soon as the elevator doors closed behind her, the man began smirking again. I didn't think it would be this easy. He thought.
Misty rubbed her tired, bleary eyes. The stacks of paper on her desk seemed endless, and she had to work late into the night often. She had barely any time to unpack her new apartment. After her unit moved there seemed to be endless documents dumped on her. All of that on top of her own independent case she was working on. She knew Ash was probably dead, but somehow, there was this weird feeling that Ash was alive. It would probably be a wild goose chase, but she still intended to find him.
Gary walked into Misty's office. "Hey Misty, you'd better turn in for today."
"You're probably right…" Misty replied, closing the file she had on her desk.
"Is anything the matter? You seem kinda troubled, or is that just how you usually are?" said Gary.
Misty laughed "I won't take that as an insult, for now. But, wow, I've only been working with you for a couple days and you already know how to read my face."
Gary just smiled. "Need a ride?"
"Sure. I guess I could get my mind off of some things." Misty replied.
A/N: Suicune95
And here's the second chapter. We hope you enjoyed this chapter of our story!
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